Crime Statistics for Southfleet, Dartford, Kent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Southfleet in October 2024. There were a total of 8 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Vehicle Crime, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Vehicle Crime	2
Violent Crime	2
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	8

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Southfleet. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Southfleet

We've taken the ten nearest places to Southfleet and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Southfleet has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
New House (1.39 miles)	317
Bean (1.96 miles)	67
Longfield (1.39 miles)	50
Stonewood (1.39 miles)	46
New Barn (1.96 miles)	33
Longfield Hill (1.96 miles)	33
Green Street Green (1.96 miles)	13
Istead Rise (1.39 miles)	13
Betsham (0.62 miles)	11
Southfleet	8

Where are the most violent places near Southfleet?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Southfleet and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
New House	120
Stonewood	24
Bean	19
New Barn	14
Longfield Hill	14
Longfield	13
Istead Rise	7
Green Street Green	3
Southfleet	2
Betsham	1

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Southfleet?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Southfleet to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Southfleet compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Southfleet and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Southfleet is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Northfleet North	90
2	Swanscombe	86
3	Coldharbour	86
4	Ebbsfleet	84
5	Northfleet South	83
6	Greenhithe & Knockhall	83
7	Woodlands	83
8	Istead Rise	59
9	Longfield, New Barn & Southfleet	55
10	Painters Ash	52
11	Fawkham and West Kingsdown	51

Which road in Southfleet has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Southfleet with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.